Steve 🐺🏳️‍🌈 @rantingsteve@vulpine.club

Just a reminder that with *gestures vaguely at everything* being what it is, absolutely anything you're doing right now to keep going, no matter how small and insignificant it might seem, is an incredible accomplishment and you should feel proud.

#Introduction time!

Hi, I'm Steve! I'm a giant, friendly teddy-bear-wolf-thing. I'm a former university prof, currently working as a writer, consultant, and private tutor. I live in the Pittsburgh-area.

When I was in college I started with a comp sci major and minor in math. When I finished 5 years later, I had a math and comp sci double-major, and a philosophy and theatre double-minor. I went to grad school around the time of the dot-com bubble-burst, and got a MSci in comp sci, and got into teaching. 10 years later I went back to school for an MDiv in theology, and ended up going back to teaching comp sci. I'm in my 40's and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.

I'm married to @artemis, @owashii, and @tabitha, and I'm the luckiest wuff ever because I have the bestest partners ever. =^w^=

I've a wide variety of hobbies and interests, including hardware hacking, video games, hording books and vintage tech, and sewing/costuming. I use Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, Kali, and Windows 11.

is better than emacs or nano. There, I said it.​

"Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not the definition of the electronic-digital?" - Timothy Leary, Chaos and Cyber Culture.

"While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." - Eugene V. Debs

RIP

That said, I really need to drum up more business.

Glad I'm getting back into private tutoring. It's considerably less stressful than course-prep, teaching, and grading, and if I do it right, potentially more lucrative.

Coffee 🐺☕️

So I'm doing a part-time contract thing providing walk-in tutoring/office hours for students in some honors program at a local university.

My hours are 7pm to 8pm Wednesdays through Saturdays. It looks like this one professor likes to have the assignments due on Saturday at 8pm.

It's been pretty quiet now (3 weeks into offering tutoring, 4 weeks into the semester), but I suspect as the semester progresses, I might regret having that Saturday office hour.

What a week, huh?

"Still among the living." is a pretty good go-to answer to that question, IMO.